"Whether we are describing a king, an assassin,……" — Guy de Maupassant
"Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing."
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70 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines
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Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy…
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists…
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You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
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You must render: never report.
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The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.'…
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To lie about a far country is easy
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I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to…
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with…
— Tryon Edwards
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I…
— Russell Brand
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
— Malcolm Lowry
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential…
— Sergio Leone
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.…
— Alan Barth
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In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
— Unknown Author
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother…
— Tryon Edwards
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